AHC: The Philippines as wealthy as Japan

So how does the Marcos presidency get eliminated? The Philippines could easily export foodstuffs and other minerals to nations that are in need of those certain resources.

Simple - he loses the Nacionalista nomination, as the party elders see him as party-switching to get elected. That means he's an independent, likely costing him his Senate seat.

I don't think you're going to get negotiations with the Huks, though. For one thing, each party was rivaling each other IIRC as to who could be more militantly anticommunist.
 
Simple - he loses the Nacionalista nomination, as the party elders see him as party-switching to get elected. That means he's an independent, likely costing him his Senate seat.

I don't think you're going to get negotiations with the Huks, though. For one thing, each party was rivaling each other IIRC as to who could be more militantly anticommunist.

So an ultranationalist faction within the Nacionalista party would be more suitable?
 
So an ultranationalist faction within the Nacionalista party would be more suitable?

The Nacionalistas are conservatives, not ultranationalists (at least in the view of foreign observers back then). The closest the Philippines ever got to a far right was the Kalibapi people, and they were a creature of the hated Japanese Occupiers(TM) .
 

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If world war two ravages east asia significantly enough, then all the Philippines would have to do is keep its head above water to be better off than the major economic centers of the far east.
 
If world war two ravages east asia significantly enough, then all the Philippines would have to do is keep its head above water to be better off than the major economic centers of the far east.

The main problem with that scenario is that only Japan is the enemy that the Allies are facing in the Pacific.
 
AH people, look at this table below, it’s clear that outside of the Philippines, foreign investors can own 100% of their businesses and land that using dummies are unnecessary while in the Philippines, foreign investors needs to hire a Filipino partner or dummy and 60% of initial capital or ownership shall go to latter because that’s what the Article XII, Section 10-11 of the 1987 Constitution says. Because of these restrictive and protectionist economic provisions of our Constitution, foreign investors are hesitant to invest in our country and the results are devastating, no much decent paying jobs results to high unemployment and underemployment that forces some of us Filipinos to work abroad for better paying jobs just to support our remaining families in the Philippines no matter what will happened to our remaining loved ones. Some Filipinos prefer to be work in a dangerous low-paying jobs like prostitution than to die in starvation and unemployed in the Philippines.

As long as this protectionist provisions in our Constitution still in place, my advice to all AH people who wanted to invest in the Philippines to shun our country and instead invest in Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam or even in Indonesia because the Philippine government are corrupt extortionists from high to low level and never respects property rights because our Constitution never guaranties that.

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Looking at these figures, the Philippines is truly pitiful. Anyways, I've may have taken this challenge by publishing El Reino de Ramon Blanco.
 
Another thing: what would a Philippines be like if Jose P. Laurel's regime lasted a bit long enough to gain legitimancy? Would they help modernize the economy or would they leave the modernization efforts to the Ganap, or the Sakdalista?
 
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